Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-08-26
MERE MENTION.

1 -! Nettete, OF course.
= Fill up your woodshed.
Fall begins next Thursday.
Are you going to see Jo-Joi
Plums are now in their prime.
Men are now at work shing!ing the
Pacific Hotel.
Mr.. Latham, Of Skokomish, was in
town, this week.
For Plums at II cents per pound
leave orders vt Silsby's.
Mr. Cheim will leave by Sundays
train for San Francisco.
The Puget Sound Pipe Factory is
now running on full time.
Mr.. E. N. Ouimette paid Olympia a
short visit, last Wednesday.
The Olympia Collegiate Institure
will open on Monday, Sept. 5.
A son was born to the wife Of Mr.
R. S. Weston, of this city, yesterday.
Born, in this city, yesterday, to the
wife of John d. Patterson, q daughter.
The ruling ambition of the small
boy Just now is to be a clown in a cir
Gus.
Miss Mary O'Neirs school will begin
its Fall term in Odd Fellows Hall,
Monday.
The tug Pohtkofsky took a large
boom of logs from the Westside, Sun
day evening.
The Juvenile band will give a con-
cert in Columbia Hall, next Wednes-
day evening.
Bishop Paddock will conduct SER
vices in St. Johns church next Sun
day morning.
Mr.. Van Epps is now agent for the
New Home Sewing Machine, one of
the best made.
Butter now sells at 60 cents per
"short weight" roll, and eggs at 80
cents per dozen.
Mr.. E. T. Young has been making
some notable Improvements to his
residence on Westside.
Little May Weston fell down stairs,
yesterday, and sustained some very
severe bruises about the head.
The mothers of young children are
considerably exercised on account Of
the scarlet fever in town.
Mr.. R. G. O'Brien is making ar
rangements to place twenty acres Of
his farm near Olympia in hops.
The little steamer Cello brought
up . Large scow-load of hemlock bark,
last Sunday, for the Tumwater tam
merry.
A large number Of Olympians are
prepar ing to visit the Mechanics
Fair in Portland, to come off in Oc-
tober.
The happiess man in town, this
week, was y festive chap who went
through . dish of oysters at the Gem
Chop House.
The arrival OF the train was delayed
till 10 o'clock Monday evening, by an
obstruction on the track, near Tenino,
of a fallen tree.
Another elegant bay-window has
appeared on the Eastside, and it is the
latest attachment to the residence Of
Mrs. L. M. Clark.
y The walls of Mayor Chambers brick
building are nearly completed. and
Mr.. Woodruff are up to the windows
of the second story.
Mr.. A. B. Rabbeson is temporarily
in charge of the Eastside sawmill,
pending the adjustment of some of the
affairs Of the company.
Capt, Gil Parker Is now in COM
mand of the steamer Emma Hayward,
a Just recognition of his skill and re-
liability as navigator.
Mrs. T. F. McElroy left last Satur.
day for . trip East, to visit her sister,
at Pitts6eld, Illinois. She will be alb
sent about three months.
Miss Lucia Mason, one Of the pub
fishers of the New Northwest, has been
in the city the past few days, on bust
ness connected with that paper.
Mr.. H. E. Shields has assumed the
Office of Receiver of Public Moneys,
releasing Maj. Hayden. Mr.. s. is a
true Democrat and will make good
officer.
Harry J. Russell, the gentlemanly
clerk of the famous Merchant Hotel,
Portland, was on q brief "outing,"
the past week, and paid the Capital
city visit.
The Fleetwood has resumed her
daily round-trip schedule, and
leaves considerably earlier in the
morning, 5 80, and arrives about eight
In the evening.
The steamer Messcnger took . pic
!. mic party down to Dofflemyre's Point,
iaat Thursday morning, and the Fleet
Sood brought the excursionists back
to town, in the evening.
Nearly everybody, it seems, has
baby or two who want to see the cir
Gus, and the parents will have to 60,
of course, to eco that they are not eat
en- up by the wild animals.
The Street Commissioner finds diff
Guilty in finding laborers to prosecute
the street work. The price paid is 81
per dav. which rate has hitherto com.